Honoured to run to serve families in Surrey-Panorama. People in Surrey-Panorama are facing tough challenges right now, and the @bcndp is the only party with a plan.
@KerryLynneFindl makes caucus changes as @IanPatonDelta & @PeterMilobar exit. Strange sentence at end of release-“We now have an even stronger teams than before…”. Who is writing this?
Effective today, I’m sitting as an Independent MLA. This isn’t the end of the conversation, it’s the start of one. I’ll have more to say soon.
See my statement below. 👇
Stories like these are getting way too common to ignore.
I don’t know about anyone else but our community needs to pay attention to this crisis, immediately.
🚨🇺🇸 🇮🇷: Trump reportedly called off the massive attack on Iran because America is running low on Patriot interceptors...
-Per the NYT, Trump has set aside plans to sharply escalate the war, persuaded in part by his military advisers' warnings about the Pentagon's diminished stockpile of Patriot interceptors
-Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine privately cautioned that major combat operations were doable but would DANGEROUSLY deplete the interceptors defending U.S. troops in Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, and the UAE
-The math behind the warning: more than 1,200 Patriots fired this war at over $4 million apiece, with inventories "worrisomely low" in April and worse since
-Few if any in Trump's inner circle backed escalation, with one senior official saying the strikes keep Iran cohesive and focused on an external threat, the opposite of the intent
-Kushner and other advisers pushed the alternative: longer-term negotiations and economic pressure, with Bessent noting China already cut Iranian crude purchases roughly 40%
-The White House's framing: Trump "prefers a diplomatic solution" but retains all options, and Iran "knows what will happen"
The war's biggest decision came down to battle arithmetic NOBODY could spin.
A bigger campaign means bigger Iranian barrages, and the interceptors that eat those barrages are running out at $4 million a shot.
Three soldiers died when one missile slipped through defenses working at full strength.
Caine's warning is what that math looks like briefed to a president, and for once the brief won.
Source: New York Times / Writer: Daniel
(Other than Andrew Scheer) I don’t know that any other Conservative leader in my lifetime would have allowed this guy to remain in their caucus. He is constantly stealing the spotlight from Poilievre and running down the image of his party.